Category: Posters and Digital Demos

Brian Gockley and David Gockley (Bucknell University) In summer 2012, Bucknell’s instructional technology group began working with Profs. Kevin Gilmore (Civil Engineering), Barry Long (Music) and Brian Gockley (Teaching & Learning Center) on developing materials for the new Integrated Perspectives (IP) course, ‘New Orleans in 12 Movements,’ offered for the first time in summer 2014.…

Amy Wolaver, Jon Walls, Mike McGowan, and Noelle Watters (Bucknell University) Healthcare costs are higher in the United States than any other country and are rising faster than all other countries. A primary influence on costs in the US are hospitalizations. Identifying ways to reduce the number of hospitalizations could reduce the cost of healthcare…

John Doces and Erik Heinemann (Bucknell University) In Africa, a common theme in development is that authoritarianism has been detrimental to development. In particular, arguments about the nature of this relationship focus on the role of the African “Big Man” and the effect of patronage politics viewing the situation as one in which people connected…

Amanda Wooden, Nicole Bakeman, and Jaclyn Tules (Bucknell University) Over the past five years, Bucknell University has made a strategic investment in integrating GIS and digital scholarship across the undergraduate curriculum in teaching and research.  We believe that applying GIS and digital scholarship methods broadens and deepens the learning experience for faculty and students alike…

Vimala C. Pasupathi (Hofstra University) In this digital poster, I will share Writing With Substance, an anti-textbook of sorts that I wrote using the platform Scalar. My interest in writing an electronic textbook for my First-Year Writing course was inspired in part by my growing desire to flee the textbook industry, whose profits and practices had…

Benjamin Carter and Timothy Clarke (Muhlenberg College) Archaeological field schools pose distinct challenges for data collection. First and foremost, because archaeology is context dependent, the process is inherently destructive; the removal of objects from the earth (i.e., excavation) destroys their contextual data which is only preserved through accurate recording. Therefore, systems must be developed that…

Katherine Faull, Henry Stann, and Alexa Gorski (Bucknell University) This summer our research team has created a database of historically significant locations and events to Native Americans within a five-mile corridor along the West Branch of the Susquehanna River between the years of 1650-1800. This time frame is also referred to as the pre-contact and…

Laura A. Kurpiers and DeeAnn M. Reeder (Bucknell University) South Sudan, a country rich in biodiversity, is ecologically unique because it is a meeting point for the floras and faunas of East and West Africa. However, little research and conservation efforts have been placed here because of a long history of civil war lasting from…

Madis Pihlak (Penn State University) A Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 class was taught at Penn State Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture using iPads based on the study of design mobility. The student body was almost entirely made up of fifth year architecture students. The seminar format was broad ranging and dealt with…

L. DeAne Lagerquist and Nora Uhrich (St. Olaf College) Locating Lutheranism began with a persistent question, an old book, and the potential of new technology. What might be learned about Norwegian-American Lutherans by paying attention to the names they gave their congregations? Could digital tools be used to analyze and interpret the data O. M.…

Annie Johnson (Lehigh University) The Digital Public Library of America is a unique content portal designed for students, teachers, scholars, and the public. It provides free access to a wide variety of digital materials from a national network of libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage institutions. The idea behind the project is simple: although many…

Mike Roy (Middlebury College) and Charles Henry (CLIR) In the electronically networked world of contemporary scholarship, the traditional role of the publisher as gatekeeper and paid distributor of scholarly argument is no longer tenable. Yet the editorial services a publisher provides to authors and the filtering service it provides to readers and promotion-and-tenure committees are…

Brittany Allen and Kyle Raudensky (Bucknell University) The Masquerade Project is a an educational video game developed by Professor Ghislaine McDayter in collaboration with Brittany Allen and Kyle Raudensky. The concept of the game is create an immersive environment in which players are transported to an 18th-century masquerade ball, and through that experience learn about…

Damon Frezza and Katelyn Allers (Bucknell University) How are stars born? One of the least understood stages in a star’s evolution is its formation. In order to study star formation we must look deep into dense clouds of dust and gas called nebulae. One such nebula is Rho Ophiuchus and, at a distance of 130…

Mark Fisher, Chris Long, Andre Avilez, and Kris Klotz (Penn State University), Dean Rehberger and Bill Hart-Davidson (Michigan State University) The Public Philosophy Journal (PPJ) is designed to be an open space for community discourse, deliberation, and action that is informed by scholarly standards while also being responsive to the interests of diverse publics. Among…

Julie Kane (Sweet Briar College) At Sweet Briar, we are beginning our second year of full rollout with our ePortfolio platform, Digication. We first ran a small pilot, capped at ~300, and started in earnest last year, requiring all incoming students to use ePortfolio as they arrived. I ask every incoming student to create her…

Sandra Stelts, Linda Friend, Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, and Carlos Rosas (Penn State University) We propose to demonstrate the genesis of an animated, interactive, Web-based archive of selected 17th- to 19th-century moveable books by and for children on the theme of transformation (http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digital/flapbooks.html or http://sites.psu.edu/play/). These rare, fragile, little-documented metamorphic books, combining aspects of books, prints, and…